Originally Posted by Lucky161:
I don't get to see any pavement sprints at all around here anymore. Nor do I get to see any USAC races either. I have seen winged sprints on pavement when I lived in Lubbock and they had a paved track. I've also made a trip to Winchester to see sprints, supers and midgets which was an awesome weekend. So it hurts me to see these small car counts for pavement sprints. I know, it's the economy. Well that is the reason/excuse for practically all low car count series I've ever heard of. Well I don't know much about fixing the economy, but I know what I'd do about the low car counts.
If I was say the promoter of Winchester, I'd tell USAC, bring me AT LEAST 24 cars. If you can't bring 24 cars, then just stay home. Then I'd run a race with Racesaver rules. Instead of 15 cars with 600+ hp, I'd rather have 40 cars with 400+ hp. 400 hp on 1500lbs race cars would put on a great show. Would the fans be able to tell the difference? Sure they would. They wouldn't be quite as fast and there would be a HELL OF A LOT MORE OF THEM!
its real simple, when usac had all the rich teams they started developing asphault and dirt cars. Usac never stopped this. This made it even harder for the local guys to compete with dirt cars. So they quit. As far as car count at winchester, for some reason they have always been low. I have attended 10-12 sprint races there in the 12 years. normally only see 18-22 cars. The most cars i have ever personally seen there was 33, and it got rained out that day. Specialized cars have killed the sport. The only way pavement racing survives is it has to be afordable to convert a car from dirt to asphault, and the car has to be competitive.